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METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR PRODUCING MATCH BOOKS Filed March 15, 1955 13Sheets-Sheet 13 ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 5, 1938 PATENT OFFICE METHOD OFAND MEANS FOR PROIjUCING MATCH-BOOKS Joseph Peyser, Mount Vernon, N. Y.Application March 15, 1935, Serial No. 11,269

9 Claims.

This invention relates to methods of and means for producingmatch-books, and has for its main object and feature the devising ofmethod and means of simple and. efilcient character for producingmatch-books at a greater speed than heretofore.

In the accompanying drawings, the invention is shown in a concrete andpreferred form in which:

Figs. 1 to 1 are diagrammatic perspective views showing the main stepsof operation in producing a match-book;

Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the machine;

Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, looking in thedirection of arrow 3 in Fig. 2;

- Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view substantially on the plane ofline 44 of Fig. 5 of the cover feeding mechanism;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view substantially on theplane of line 5-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical sectional view substantially on theplane of line 68 of Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic view showing the steps of feeding cover blanks;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged plan view of the middle portion of Fig. 2;

Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view substantially on the plane ofirregular line 9-9 of Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view substantially on theplane of line I'll-Ill of Fig. 8;

Fig. 11 is a vertical sectional view substantially on the plane of line"-4 I of Fig. 12;

Fig. 12 is a vertical sectional view substantially on the plane of line|2l2 of Fig. 9;

Fig. 13 is an enlarged plan view of the righthand end of Fig. 2, partlyin section;

Fig. 14 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view substantially on theplane of line I4-Il of Fig. 13;

Fig. 15 is a transverse vertical sectional view substantially on theplane of line I5-l5 of Fig. 13;

Fig. 16 is a transverse vertical sectional view substantially on theplane of line l6--l6 of Fig. 13;

Fig. 1'7 is a horizontal sectional view substantially on the plane ofline l'l-I'I of Fig. 18; and

Fig. 18 is a vertical sectional view substantially on the plane of linel8l8 of Fig. 1'7.

20 indicates a conveyer here in the form of anintermittently movablesprocket chain having blank or cover supporting compartments or surfaces2!, said chain being trained. over sprockets 22 and 23 at opposite endsof the machine (Figs,

2, 5, 9, 13 and 14). Arranged alongside this conveyer are the variousinstrumentalities or mechanisms for associating cover blanks andmatch-combs. The general arrangement will readily be understood fromFig. 2 where the various stations are identified by legends.

Suitable means are provided for feeding the covers, and these means maytake the form shown in application Ser. No. 13,473 filed March 28, 1935where the covers are obtained from a roll of paper which is severedtransversely at intervals to produce the individual cover blanks, butpreferably the cover feeding means take the following form: Referring toFigs. 2 to '7 inclusive, two cover hoppers 24 are arranged in tandem butnot closely adjacent. The method used is to feed two cover blankssimultaneously once to every two intermittent movements of conveyer 20.This method will be most readily understood by referring to Fig. 7 whichshows the two cover stacks and the position of cover blanks on theconveyer after each of a number of movements of said conveyer. As thereshown, the covers do not fall on the conveyer surfaces directly beneaththe stacks but are fed (by means presently to be described) forward inthe direction of movement of the conveyer and downward beneath guides 25to the conveyer. Nine positions of the conveyer are shown in thediagram. At the beginning of the operation two cover blanks, indicatedby I, are simultaneously fed to the conveyer, and it will be seen thatthese two blanks are spaced relatively widely apart, and may bedenominated a first and a fourth blank inasmuch as they are separated bytwo empty conveyer compartments. The conveyer now makes a step in thedirection of the arrow and then stops when it arrives in the secondposition, in which position no cover blanks are fed to the conveyer. Theconveyer now makes another step and arrives at the third position, andduring its pause in that position two more cover blanks, here indicatedby 2, are fed to the conveyer. Another step of the conveyer brings us tothe fourth position in which no cover blanks are fed. When the conveyerarrives at the fifth position, two more cover blanks, indicated by 3 arefed to the conveyer. In the sixth position of the conveyer no coverblanks are fed, but in the seventh position two cover blanks, 4, areagain fed. In the eighth position, no cover blanks are fed, but in theninth position two cover blanks, 5, are fed. It is unnecessary to showadditional positions of the conveyer because it will be seen from theforegoing that a first and a fourth blank are fed to the conveyer aftereach two intermittent movements thereof, and that the result of this isto produce a succession of closely spaced blanks on the conveyer, everycompartment being filled except the one marked 0. This compartment canbe filled by hand, or the foremost blank marked I, adjacent to can beremoved, the proper succession of blanks being thereafter producedautomatically. Extending longitudinally through the machine is mainshaft 26 that here makes one revolution to each cycle of the machine, 1.e. to each match-book produced. 21 is a cross-shaft deriving its motionfrom 26 by means of bevel gears 26 and 29 (Figs. 4, and 6) and it willbe seen that the gear ratio is such that shaft 21 makes one revolutionto every two. revolutions of 26. Shaft 21 actuates the cover feedingmechanism, which latter is constructed as follows: cover blank hoppers24, of which there are two arranged in tandem above the conveyer, arecomposed of channels, carried by framework 30 of the machine, and areopen at the bottom. 3| indicates a horizontal slide mounted in theframework below the hoppers and carries two pairs of feed members 32 and33, one pair for each hopper. Reciprocating motion is imparted to slide3| by means of eccentric 34 on shaft 21, arm 35, lever 36 on rock-shaft31, lever 36a also on rockshaft 31, and link 36. In accordance with theusual operation of hopper feeds of this character, the lowermost blankis fed forwardly out of the hopper and drops through an opening in theframework to the conveyer. Front-registering devices indicated at 39 maybe used in connection with the hopper feed and likewise, in the presentinstance, movable guides or ejectors 25 may be utilized. As here shown,guides 25 are carried by brackets 40 mounted on vertical slide 4|, whichlatter is actuated from cam 42 on shaft 21 by means of cam roller 43,arm 44, rockshaft 45, arm 46 and link 41. In order to prevent more thanone cover blank from being fed at a time, rollers 46 may be employedthat are conveniently driven by means of a belt 49 trained over a pulley50, moving with sprocket 23, and over pulleys 5| carried by rollers 46.

Refer now to Figs. 2, 3 and 8 to 12 inclusive. Arranged alongsideconveyer 20 is the matchcomb feeding mechanism. 52 indicates a table orsupport for the match-comb, and above which is a reciprocatory comb feeddevice 53 having a number of loosely pivoted feed dogs 54. Device 53 iscarried by slide 55, mounted in suitable guides 56, and receives itsmotion from rockshaft 51 by means of yoke 56, carried by saidrock-shaft, and sliding block 59 pivotally supported at 60 on slide 55.Rock-shaft 51 receives its motion from cross-shaft 6I by means ofeccentric 62, connecting rod 63 and link 64. Shaft 6|, in turn, derivesits motion from main shaft 26 by means of spiral gears 65 and 66 havinga one to one ratio. A double-layer match-comb strip M is placed on table52 beneath dogs 54 and against stop 61. The comb is of relatively greatlength, as shown by reserve comb strip M, and has to be severed intoappropriate comb-sections that are then associated with the covers. Dogs54 are so spaced and the extent of reciprocating movement of 53, is suchthat on each stroke, of 53 the comb strip is advanced parallel 'toconveyer 20 a distance equal to the length of comb-section to besevered. The number of dogs employed and the length of the comb strip issuch that rear dog 54a is behind the rear edge of the comb strip, andtherefore the first forward stroke of 63 will cause dog 54a. to advancethe comb strip one step, the rest of dogs 54 resting on top of saidstrip. On the return stroke, dogs 54 will slide idly over the combstrip, and said strip being now shorter, dog 54b will drop behind itand, on the next forward stroke of 53, dog 54b will feed the comb stripand so on until the strip is used up when reserve comb strip is broughtforward against stop 61 and the previously described sequence ofoperations is repeated. Obviously, the reserve comb strip M may bepositioned by hand or by means of a feed belt 66 properly timed with theother parts of the machine. The comb strip in being fed forward passesover stationary knife-member 69 and the outer end of said strip issevered by vertically reciprocating knife 10. Knife-member carries apusher or ejector 1I that pushes the severed comb-section intotransversely extending guide 12 which is at the same level as conveyer20. Knife member 10 slides in guides 13 and receives its motion fromcrossshaft 6I by means of eccentric 14, rod and connection 16. 11 is atransversely moving feed member that moves the comb-section from guide12 onto the cover carried by conveyer Member 11 is actuated from theslide member of knife 10 by means of arm 16, link 19, bell-crank 60, onshaft 6|, and link 63. Before the combsection is fed to the covercarried by conveyer 26, the said cover has been subjected to certainoperations. 64 indicates an abutment member which descends on the coverwith a yielding pressure. It is carried by a slide 65 moving in guides66, said slide being conveniently operated from rock-shaft 51 by meansof arm 61 and link 66. A vertically reciprocating slide 89 cooperateswith said abutment member or clamp and turns up a short end on the coverwhile the clamp is holding it, the result being a very definite bendingof the cover. Slide 69 is actuated from eccentric 90, on shaft 6 I, bymeans of arm 9| and connection 92. Abutment member 64 also convenientlycarries a side-registering device 93 which acts to guide thecomb-section when the latter is fed by slide 11 onto the cover. Theassociated cover and comb-section now pass under a stationary bar orhold-down device 94 carried by bracket 95. 96 indicates a vertical slideto act against the cover to turn up the long end thereof, and isconveniently actuated from eccentric 91, on crossshaft 6I, by means ofarm 96 and connection 99.

Refer now to Figs. 2, 3, 13 to 18 inclusive. Holddown device 94 has areduced extension I06, which is in effect a thin blade, under which theassociated cover and comb-section pass. I 0| is a horizontal slidemoving in guides I02, and actuated from eccentric I03, on main shaft 26,by means of connections I04, I05, I06 and I01. I06 is a secondhorizontal slide moving in guides I09, and actuated from eccentric IIO,on main shaft 26,by means of connections III, H2, H3 and H4.

Slide IOI acts to fold down the long end of the cover, and slide I06acts to fold down the short end of the cover. I I5 indicates a stitchingmechanism to stitch the cover and comb-section together. It isunnecessary to describe the detailed construction of the stitchingdevice, suffice it to say that it can be of a conventional type and thatit is driven by means of sprockets H6 and H1 and chain II 6. Sprocket H1is mounted on shaft II6a which receives motion from shaft II9 by meansof bevel gears I20 shaft 9 is in turn driven from main shaft 26 by meansof spur gears I 2I and I 22. I23 is a clinching device to flatten thestaple that the stitching device ha driven through the cover andcomb-section. The clinching device is carried by an arm I24 carried byrock-shaft I25 which receives its motion from shaft I I8a by means ofeccentric I26 and arms I21 and I28 pivotally connected. I29 is anejecting device having two ejecting members I30 so as to simultaneouslyeject two completed matchbooks. and is in the form of a transversehorizontal slide moving in guides I3I. This slide receives its motionfrom shaft I32 carrying a cam I33 with which engages a cam roller I34mounted on arm I35 pivotally connected by arm I36/to rock-shaft I31,from which latter extends an arm I38 pivotally connected by means oflink I39 to slide I29. Shaft I32 makes one revolution to each tworevolutions of main shaft 26 and is driven from the latter by spur gearsI 2| and I40. Conveyor 20 is advanced intermittently one step to eachrevolution of the main shaft by any suit able means such as thefollowing: sprocket 22 is secured to shaft I to which latter is alsosecured slotted member I42 of a Geneva stop motion device. Mounted onshaft I43 is a two-armed member I44 carrying rollers I45 to engage withthe slots in member I42. Shaft I43 is driven from shaft II9 by means ofbevel gears I46 and I41. Shaft II9 makes one revolution to eachrevolution of main shaft 26, and shaft I43 makes one revolution to eachtwo revolutions of shaft 1 I9, but inasmuch as shaft I43 carries twoarms I44, it will be seen that shaft I, and hence sprocket 22 andconveyer 20, makes two steps to each revolution of shaft I43, and onestep to each revolution of main shaft 26. Shaft I4I drives shaft I45a bymeans of bevel gears I46a. Mounted on shaft I450. is a rotatabledelivery member I48 which latter is thus moved a step to deliver acompleted match-book every time conveyer 20 takes a step. Mountedalongside delivery member I48 is a reversing member I49 having a slotI50 for the reception of a match-book. This reversing member is rotatedone-half of a revolution once to each two steps of delivery member I48,and is conveniently actuated from shaft I32 (which it will be rememberedmakes one revolution to each two revolutions of the main shaft) by meansof cam I5I, cam roller I52, arm I53, rock shaft I 54, arm I55, rack I56and gear I5'I, the latter carried by reversing member I49. As previouslyexplained, ejectors I30 eject two completed match-books at a time fromconveyer 20, and one of these passes over guide I58 directly to deliverymember I48, while the other passes into slot I50 of reversing memberI49. The delivery member thereupon takes a step delivering to trough I59 the match-book which it has received directly from guide I58. Thereversing member makes one-half of a revolution thereby reversing theposition of the match-book. Transfer device I60 now enters the open slotI50 and transfers a match-book from the reversing member to the deliverymember and the latter takes another step while the transfer member isretracted. Transfer device I60 is actuated from the infeed end of themachine being driven from shaft 21 by meansof cam I6I, cam roller I62,arm I63, lever I64 loose on rock-shaft 3'! and pivotally connected torod I65 extending almost the entire length of the machine and secured atits other end to plate I65a. Plate I65a carries a bearing I65b receivingstem I650 of transfer device I60. When the reversing device is rotated,transfer member I 60 and stem I 650 rotate with it, this action beingpermitted by bearing I65b.

A brief summary of the operation of the device,

reference now being made to Figs. 1 to 1 inclusive, is as followsz'Twocovers are fed simultaneously once to every two cycles of the machine,to conveyer 20, passing beneath guides as 25. Cover C now passes alongwith conveyer 20 until it reaches the station where clamp 84 descendsupon it and slide 89 turns up the short end C of the cover. Thematch-comb strip M is fed along table 52 and knife I descends and cutsoff a comb-section which latter passes into guide I2. When the coverarrives at the station opposite uide I2, side-registering device 93,carried by clamp 84, descends, and feed member 11 pushes thecomb-section onto the cover and under holddown device 94. Thecomb-section is front registered against short upturned end C of thecover and side registered by 93. When the coverv and comb-section arriveat the next station, slide 96 rises and turns up the long end C2 of thecover. The cover and comb-section now pass under the thin extension I00of hold-down device 94 and at this station slide I 0| advances and foldsdown long end C2 of the cover over extension I00. At the next station,slide I08 advances and folds down short end C over the long end of thecover. The assemblage now passes to an idle station where nothingoccurs. At the next station the assemblage has passed beyond extensionI00, and stitcher II now descends and drives a staple C3 through thecover and comb-section in a known manner, after which the assemblagepasses to a station where clincher I23 acts to clinch the staple. liverystation, and when two match-books have arrived side by side, ejectorfingers I30 advance and push the two match-books out of the con-' Theassemblage now passes to the de-' veyer, the first one passing overguide I58 directly ter delivers said match-book in an upright positionto trough I59 with the thick end up but in line with the firstmatch-book.

The advantages of the methods and construction herein disclosed aresimplicity and reliability of operation, and also an increase in speed,because, although cams could obviously be employed, eccentrics are usedby preference to actuate the parts that operate once to each cycle ofthe machine, while those parts-as the cover feed-that preferably shouldhave a slower movement are operated only twice to each cycle.

The means for feeding the cover blanks are not specifically claimedherein but form the subject matter of another application Ser. No.48,280, filed November 5, 1935. So also the means for delivering thematch-books are not claimed herein as such but form the subject matterof still another application Ser. No. 48,281, filed November 5, 1935.

I.claim:

1. A match-book machine including: an intermittently moving conveyer; aseries of mechanisms located along and acting after each intermittentmovement of said conveyer to act sequentially upon covers and combs toassociate the same; means located in advance of said mechanisms tosimultaneously feed two covers in spaced relation to the conveyer aftereach two intermittent movements of the latter; and means tosimultaneously deliver two match-books fromsaid conveyer after each twointermittent movements of the latter.

2. The method of forming a match-book which consists in: turning up theshort end of the cover; feeding the match-comb against said turned-upend; turning up and folding over the comb the long end of the cover;folding over the short end of the cover; and securing the cover and combtogether.

3. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer; andmeans to associate a comb-section with the cover on the conveye;ineluding: mechanism to turn up the short end of the cover; a feedingdevice to feed a comb-section over the cover and against the upturnedshort end thereof; means to turn up and fold over the comb the long endof the cover; means to thereafter fold the short end of the cover andstitch it to the comb section; and transmission means to actuate theinstrumentalities recited.

4. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer; andmeans to associate a comb-section with the cover on the conveyerincluding: an abutment clamp to engage the cover; mechanism to turn upthe short end of the cover against the abutment clamp; a feeding deviceto feed a comb-section over the cover and against the upturned short endthereof; means to thereafter fold the cover and stitch it to thecombsection; and transmission means to actuate the instrumentalitiesrecited.

5. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer;mechanism to turn up the short end of the cover; means to feed amatchcomb strip along one side of said conveyer; a knife mechanism tosever a comb-section from the strip; a feeding device operatingsubstantially at right angles to the movement of the conveyer to feed acomb-section over the cover and against the upturned short end thereof;means to turn up and fold over the comb-section the long end of thecover; means to thereafter fold the short end of the cover; means tostitch the short end of the cover to the comb-section; and transmissionmeans to actuate the instrumentalities recited.

6. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer; meansto feed a comb-section to the cover on the conveyer; a hold-down devicebeneath and beyondwhich the conveyer passes; folding members to fold thecover about the hold-down device; and transmission means to actuate allthe instrumentalities recited except the hold-down device.

7. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer;mechanism to turn up the short end of the cover; a hold-down devicebeneath and beyond which the conveyer passes; means to feed acomb-section over the cover, beneath the hold-down device and againstthe upturned short end of the cover; folding members to fold the coverabout the hold-down device; and transmission means to actuate all theinstrumentalities recited except the hold-down device.

8. A match-book machine including: a cover conveyer; means to feed acover to the conveyer; mechanism to turn up the short end of. the cover;a hold-down device beneath and beyond which the conveyor passes; meansto feed a comb-section over the cover, beneath the hold-down device andagainst the upturned short end of the cover; means to turn up the longend of the cover; folding members to fold down the long and the shortends of the cover about the hold-down device; stitching mechanism tostitch the cover and comb-section together; and means to deliver thematch-book from the conveyer.

9. In a match-book machine, the combination of a cover conveyer; aside-registering mechanism, for-a comb-section, extending transverselyabove and movable in and out of the cover conveyer; means to move saidside-registering mechanism down and up into and out of the coverconveyer; and a feeding device operating substantially at right anglesto the movement of the conveyor to feed a comb-section along saidsideregistering mechanism to a cover on the conveyer while theside-registering mechanism is in down position in the conveyer.

JOSEPH PEYSER.

